YACHTING.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 9913, 30 July 1910, Page 6

YACHTING.

THE SAYONARA OOP. United Press Association—By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright. (Received July 30, 8.50 a.m.) SYDNEY, July 30.

The Victorian yachtsmen intend to lose no time in their attempt to recapture the Sayonara Cup. The Sydney Royal Yacht Squadron has accepted the challenge of the Victorian Royal Yacht Club for a series of raoes off Sydney Heads in January next for the Sayonara Cup.

When the Sayonara Clip was sailed in March last, the Victorian yachtsmen refused to allow a full time allowance to the Sydney boat Culwalla 111., which was smaller than the Sayonara. The three races were sailed on the understanding that an appeal on tihe question"should he made to the British Yachting Association. The Association decided that the Sayonara should have allowed the Culwalla 35 seconds per mile, and on this allowance the Culwalla won two out of the three races, and therefore won the Cup. The first race in March was won by the Sayonara (the defender) by eight minutes, the course being ten knots to windward and back; the second (a triangular course, seven miles each way) fell to the Culwalla by a margin of about three minutes; * the third was won by the Sayonara by about thirteen minutes. In. the races 'Culwalla 111. did not carry her biggest jack yard topsail, because with it she came out slightly over the 10 metre rating, while with the smaller one she came out slightly under. The object of this was to entitle her to the time allowance a 12-metro yacht would have to give a 10-metro yacht where the time allowance was allowed. The -Sayonara rates at 11.42 metres, which for time allowance purposes counts at 12 metres. The Sayonara was designed in 1897, before the present system of rating was adopted, and is at a disadvantage in rating between 11 metres and 12 metres. Culwalla 111. was designed in 1907 as a 10-metro boat. The subject of time allowance in the Sayonara Cup contests has long been a point of dispute. Victoria has always maintained that under the original deed of gift of the cup, and under the British Yachfc Racing Association's rules, which are incorporated in. it. the Sayonara Cup contests are class races, for boats of 12 metres, and that as such there is no time allowance. New South Wales, however, contends that under the deed and rules, and as in the first two contests which precede the existing rules a time allowance was given, the races are amalgamated cla-ss races.. The Sayonara Cup was presented for competition by Mr Alfred Gollan, the owner of the Sayonara.